2[countableC, uncountableU]RR the holy books of a particular religion 〔某一宗教的〕经文,经籍,圣书
Hindu scriptures
印度教经文
Examples from the Corpus
scripture• And while his memorysearched wildly for a scripture, nothing came forth.• Neither of these options holds much promise for reading the Bible as scripture.• Buddhist scriptures• If one looks to sources other than the canonicalscriptures, Thomas's role assumes larger proportions.• His scripture is the dirt we're often doing.• In a number of passages there are emphaticstatements that he had come to fulfil the scriptures.• Originally they were responsible for making accuratecopies of the scriptures and for guarding the text against any errors.• Or so the scriptures tell us.
Scripture
[uncountableU] (also the (Holy) Scriptures [plural])RRC the Bible 《圣经》
the way God is portrayed in Scripture
《圣经》中对上帝的描写
Originscripture
(1300-1400)Latinscriptura“something written”, from scribere; → SCRIBE
(often scriptures) ADJECTIVE | ... OF SCRIPTURE | VERB + SCRIPTURE | PREPOSITIONADJECTIVE➤holy, sacred神聖的經文◇the sacred scripture of the Buddhists佛教經文➤ancient古經文▸➤Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, etc.佛教、基督教、印度教、猶太教等經文... OF SCRIPTURE➤passage, verse, words一段/一節/幾句經文VERB + SCRIPTURE➤read, read from讀經文◇She read from the scriptures.她朗讀經文。➤interpret解釋經文➤study研究經文▸➤cite, quote, quote from引用經文PREPOSITION➤in the scriptures在經文中◇You won't find this moral precept in the scriptures.你在《聖經》中找不到這種道德準則。